Students may find reaching out for mental health support intimidating. For student athletes, whose scholarship and education may depend on their ongoing athletic ability, talking to their coach about mental health concerns could seem extremely risky. Some colleges and universities have a dedicated s...
Student mental health reached crisis levels last year, and the pressure on schools to figure out solutions has never been greater. Districts across the country are using federal pandemic money to hire more mental health specialists, rolling out new coping tools and expanding curriculum that prio...
Mental fatigue has attracted the attention of many sport scientists over the course of the last two decades given the potential negative consequences for exercise performance [1,2,3]. A key hypothesis in this area is that performing a cognitive task with high demands increases the subjective feeli...
Introduction The importance of personality to mental health entails accurate definition of both personality and mental health. According to World Health Organization (WHO) health is defined as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or ...
In recent months, several college athletes across the U.S. have died by suicide, prompting concerns about a mental health crisis in collegiate sports. Here’s what athletes are saying.
Everyone is going through something, and being ashamed of identifying struggles and personal needs may lead to a grave outcome. Back at home, young people enjoy some level of support. When in college, they are left on their own to identify crisis and take care of themselves, thus being able...
If you need immediate mental health support, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. For more on the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Paris: One of the best things you can do for your mental health and well-being, according to a psychologist who counsels U.S. Olympians Team USA...
The youth mental health crisis: quasi-experimental evidence on the role of school closures. Sci Adv. 2023;9(33):eadh4030. doi:10.1126/sciadv.adh4030 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 20. Italian School Ministry. #Iotornoascuola, documents Accessed May 9, 2024. https://w...
America’s children face a mental health crisis. Rates of anxiety, depression, and addiction have soared since the pandemic, and they were high before it began. Worse, over 60% of these troubled youth don’tget the mental health treatmentthey need. Financial hardship...
“I’m not saying that social media is not part of this [crisis], but we don’t have the evidence yet,” says Dr Amy Orben, leader of the digital mental health group at the University of Cambridge. “It is a lot easier to blame companies than to blame very complex phenomena. But a...